What does this have to do with pro-choice?

There's bear sausage as well, and then there's the sausage for every kid's fad. Like this one:

http://www.gezemel.nl/wordpress/images/BobdeBouwerworst_AE44/DSC001592.jpg

> This isn't a free speech issue. If Critical Mass wants to hold a protest, fine, but not once a month for a decade.

That's a weird statement. Apart from the bikers being assholes or not, if they are protesting something I fully expect them to go on for a decade or however long it takes to be heard. Your statement makes it that much more an issue of free speech.

> I usually round up to the nearest dollar when I'm paying -- something about being trusted makes me eager to pay extra.
As opposed to being treated like you're not to be trusted like in music with DRM, where one isn't enclined to pay extra.

Very true. I found the honours system on the Danish isle Bornholm delightful and rewarding, and the cherries were good, too. They just had a plastic container out where we took our change from. Very cool.

> boycott ur pants

I tried that, but my colleagues were not amused.

Just a question, not meaning to interfere:

Why are there so many MM updates on this blog? The people who like MM have probably all put the feed in their readers, so are the daily updates really necessary?

Reminds me very much of Passage:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

I enjoyed Passage a lot.

"aftermath" of unprotected sex?
Please. It's not like a plane crashed into the building here.

I heart period.

"same-day simulcasting"
The what now?

Also, and this may be extremely illegal, immoral, unamerican, socialist, gay, xenophobic and naughty:
http://www.southparkzone.com/
Works outside the US de A as well.

She should have written on her anus: do not operate here? There are limits to the sharpy trick.

> Does US customs really think that Americans aren't capable of hearing some fashionista recount his drug stories without falling into a pit of dissolute decadence?

Yes.

Teresa @44, Unfuckatron: I know! I read your comment in the other thread (the one with the profanity/fingerprinting airlines) and Googled the phrase, only finding it here.

Just doing my part in sharing this wonderful thing with the world.

Did he mention he was going to instantiate the unfuckatron though?

I just visited the site Jeff posted, and want to share the following graph with all of you:

http://www.silobreaker.com/NewsTrends.aspx?TrendDrillDownItems=11_303199,11_303293,11_78001&

I hope it's still as wonderfully silly in a couple of days. It pits (amount? of what? there's no real legend for the scale) Ipod against Acts of Terrorism against Europeans. As you can clearly see, there is less (reporting of? who knows?) terrorism when there's more Ipod. Hence, Steve Jobs is Osama Bin Laden.

Europeans are in the clear though.

Also:

#9

"The Dutch might not want to exchange currancy now, but lots of that country's wealth is in the form of real estate holdings in the USA. Ha Ha Ha."

[citation needed]

#26

"The idea that America can transition to a purely knowledge/service based economy is dependent on the idea that whoever is making the goods will be permanently content with simply providing cheap manufacture in exchange for our ideas."

That, and smart people. (Free after the Big Lebowski)

#2: it does make sense for air travelers to foot the bill for travel-related expenses

This is nonsense. Yes, when you fly to the USA, you need a ticket, a suitcase and a clean pair of underwear. Perhaps bring some sunglasses.

See? Those are all reasonable travel-related expenses. Nobody's complaining. When some government makes a new rule that is useless, arbitrary and privacy invading, AND lets the victim (notice that word? I used it on purpose) foot the bill, we're bordering on the criminally insane.

The only thing keeping USA tourism from being non-existent is the sorry state of the dollar. Something to be proud of, I guess.

The head is not large for a Dutch beer! Two fingers is the correct size. Looks about right.

Yeah! Pics or it didn't happen!

18) Have common sense.

1 meter = 1.0936133 yards

(according to Google)

Doesn't that prove Keen's original point though? He "crowd-sourced" (puke) the question, and the crowd came up with a wrong answer.
It's not even far-fetched (Who? Lessig? Isn't he that commie leftist guy? He must love pirates. I'll vote "yes".)

Perhaps he's "crowd-sourced" his entire book?

On my trip to Mexico I learned that the wedges are for keeping the flies away from the beer.

In other words, putting lime in your Corona means you have an insect problem.

Fun fact: Mexicans do not drink Corona. It's just marketed that way. Same goes for Foster's in Australia.

Why are 5, 6 and 7 the same thing?

Wait, what? We do "odd things?"

Damn! Archive.org doesn't have it either.

Wow, the whip and grail from Indy! What would the www.indygear.com guys give for that one?

Rude?

The "bottom line" of a government is (should be) the people.

The bottom line of a corporation is profit.

These are not compatible. This is why ultra-capitalism/free market as practiced in the USA will not work.

Boohoo, politicians are being bought! They're passing the DMCA! Boohoo! No copyright reform! Boohoo!

If you think this is "Hate the Big Rich kid", you're missing the point so hard that I wonder if you ever even had it in the first place.

Oh right! Because they were Bad Guys it's OK! Still a civilised nation! Sure, you can cut off their foot in about 30 seconds with a decent bone saw. So that can't count either!

I'd like to see Mr Goldberg take a minute of intense waterboarding. See how he likes that. And, while we're at it, let's see if you would describe the public outrage as "hysterics" once it's been done on you!

Wtf with the quotes around waterboarding, too.

> as a US citizen, it's your right.

Except if, you know, you're running Linux, because you can't see the website. Yes, SL has been "announced" for Linux. Because MS and Linux are real good chums. It's just good practice! Like following standards! Oh, and they also have SL for the Mac. Since you're a Mac user, I don't have to educate you on the amazing state of MS software on the Mac. So yes, like the BBC player and so many other MS/other proprietary sw before, it reeks.

If it's a right, it should be directly funded. Not by MS or some other corporation, because they ultimately do not care about you, they care about the bottom line. This is why DRM exists. It should be funded by the state. But noooo, let's not be socialists! That's right next to commies! Let's let the free market (whatever) decide! Let's have McDonalds school forms!

There's just too much whining going on. Choose the free market, choose small government, reap what you sow. Just don't come crying when it doesn't quite turn out the way you envisioned it. When the "best" company turns out to be Microsoft.

Well done.

- British accent? check
- Simple animations? check
- Using British slang and semi-cursewords? check
- Using heavy emphasis on last word in sentence? check
- Speaking really quickly? check

Yahtzee is funnier.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation

Are Sky Marshalls privatised yet?

When will these rules go in to effect? I was planning to visit the US (hello cheap $$$) but this could definitely be a deal breaker.

Look what that little hamster made me do! Made me view the BB webs all without my adblocks! I was UNPROTECTED THERE! For a while! At least!

And for everybody else:

2 ft 9 in = 83.82 centimeters

That IS kinda small. Smallish.

What I find interesting is that although she has Julian Lennon's "My full support", he's one of the persons who would likely be hurt by this trademark. He's a musician himself, under his own name. (I don't think Yoko Ono ever had a problem with that) If he were to make a new album, he could be sued for using a TM not registered in his name (pun intended.)

> These days, I really feel, more and more, that this kind of defeatist cynicism is the real obstacle we have to overcome (worldwide).

Oh no you're not getting off that easily. This is not a case of "Let's all think positive thoughts and everything will be well!" I totally agree with you that biting cynicism isn't going to help your cause, but you have to understand that not only the people in the US are cynical, also pretty much all of the foreigners. Well, except some politician boot lickers, but you get my point. Especially after the monkey man was elected a SECOND time.

You're going to have to come up with something WAY, WAY better than that.

I'm sorry if you didn't intend it that way, I can see that you might not have. It's just such a disappointing state of affairs. The USA used to be so cool, the land of the free and all that.

Also, perhaps I've just proven your point.

I've never really understood the "we can overthrow our unconstitutional government" thing. That was written in another age, people. This will never, EVER, happen. I dare you say it's not true. Nothing will ever get the "militia" out of their homes, off their couches, away from the TV.
And don't even say it's a well-regulated militia. It's codified, and that's pretty much all you can say about it.

The next point I would like to bring up is that unlike a club or a knife, guns are really easy to use. It's really easy to kill someone, even without force. This can be explained as a good thing (women, the frail, etc.) I say with this great force comes great responsibility. I do not see great responsibility. I see a jack-ass firing a gun wildly at nothing.

Also, since we're bringing up gay marriage anyway, isn't it true that the constitution needed to be interpreted against this basic freedom? Land of the free, something or other, but not two guys wanting to marry. On the other hand, the gun thing is set in stone! Militia! Government overthrowings!

I would like to link to a Wikipedia article as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocrisy

I do see what's interesting about guns though. Mechanically delicate, well oiled, with a nice snap, they're really pretty cool. The weight is just right, nicely balanced, the whole thing. Plus, since I'm a boy, I like it when stuff goes boom. And, yes, the power is fascinating.

Live free or obsess!

Congratulations!!

"socially-generated"?

They sat around with some beers on a Friday night and let the computer mine some data?

I hope this was just tongue in cheek.

The mother in law has conspicuous sideburns. You know, for a woman. Are we positive the young mother isn't tricked into some PERVERTED PERVERSION???//

Jeff@30: I hope you're kidding. You are aware that Cory pretty much "gives away" all of his novels?
http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=5

(I could be set up for an epic *WHOOOOOSH* here, but I'll bite)

@rv9factory: so that's where the confusion lies. I always understood the problem to mean: the conveyor moves back at a speed that is high enough to keep the plane stationary. No moving of wings through air -> no lift -> no flight.

Hurray for open standards! This is a perfect example of why we need the Open Document Format.

I wonder if there isn't some kind of migration plugin or helper that would facilitate moving to another system though. Especially the permalinks, those are pretty easy to fake: use .htaccess to rewrite to a catcher script, use a db lookup to translate to the new page, issue a 301 for good measure and forward to the new page.

What does the heart condition have to do with anything? If you tase someone with a heart condition and he dies, you're somehow NOT to blame? Or less to blame than when he would have been healthy?

I really don't get it.

http://www.macrumorslive.com/

Is what I follow. Right from the comfort of my web browser.

#8, zosa: it's encrypted alright, but mostly through obscurity, or at least that's what we think...

@Tom, 8: "Yeah, I REALLY want the government to be able to control my internet connection, be able to intercept, record and monitor it at will."

They already do. In some countries, they need a warrant. In others, not so much.

What makes you think that private corporations will not snoop on your email? At least with the government, the bottom line isn't profit. With a corp, pretty much anything that makes money will be done. Sell your emails to Mr. Spammer A. Spam? Done. Sift through your browsing history to see what you really need to buy next? Done. Keep this information forever? Done. Get bought up by a bigger fish, pooling more of your data? Done.

Again, even with everything in private hands, the government STILL gets to see your data. There's no need to worry about that.

So yes, I would really like to see basic connectivity from my government. They have libraries as well (and they keep track of what you borrow! Gasp!) and schools (they know what you know!!!) and toll booths (they know where you are!!!!!!), so this would be a logical step.

Either way, my point is that it would be good to have the wifi, and bad to have a totalitarian, snooping government. These two points can certainly be combined into WIRELESS UTOPIA! WHO'S WITH ME!

@Sweep, 5: Me attempt humors, yes.

Hahaha, great idea to privatise the telcos.

There are no competitors when it comes to roads and rails. There's just no space for another set of tracks. This is not true for Wifi, where there's more than one spot on the spectrum that competitors can use. Also, there are companies who can and do provide internet service, so competition exists (albeit not wireless).

That said, I think it's utterly stupid. I think it's very important to give people a basic network connection. This can only improve education, as well as consumation. (Order from the comfort of your home, etc.)
Make it so that people have a basic level of connectivity, enough for email and light browsing.
If you want more, pay a normal ISP to give you a regular line, complete with youtube, bittorrent, counter-strike, the works.

Only, that way the ISPs would have to compete on service instead of price, or at least point them more in that direction. This is not what ISPs want.

> but it also bears mentioning that a true understanding for foreign cultures is unlikely to develop without visiting them

Obviously, you've never met any American tourists.

*SSCHHHWWINNNGGGGG*

Hurray! Got it for my birthday recently! Great little book.

@ #62, the 1% makes it sound like 1 in 100 passengers want to blow up planes. This is so ridiculously far from the truth that it's not even funny. I think it's very important to point what the real numbers are, or the TSA could use this as implied justification of their methods and existence.

I know you weren't implying that though, just saying.

Leaves me wondering what those 700 people were arrested for... I guess it must have been a test in the wild, not with planted bogeys.

In a similar style, Louis V (not the king, the bag man) didn't want these for sale:

http://www.mindwhatyouwear.com/fake2.html

An obvious fake (it says FAKE on it), the designer didn't use the real real LV bags but got the knock-offs, maybe that's what set them off.

Can we back up just a little bit?

> Fingerprinting - that's so bad?

Not for criminals, no. We (eurotrash ahoy) do that to our criminals as well!

oblig. "your arm looks shopped. i can tell from some of the pixels and having seen quite a few shops in my time"

The schematics aren't online? He sells the PCBs? They sound "way better?" Where's the DIY?

...

For a great sounding little amp, I made the Ruby from RunOffGroove: http://www.runoffgroove.com/ruby.html
Schematics available, PCB layout available, perf layout available, all for free. Licenses can be obtained for commercial use. Build reports abound. Mods are easy and fun.

My build here: http://remmelt.com/ruby/

There are loads of other and free small amps out there, this is just an example. I also own a Smokey which is a bit pricey but great. http://www.smokeyamps.com/

No matter how people vote and how much they deserve what they get, no matter how many people get fired or forced to resign, no matter how many Spaghetti Monsters (hail!) or Jeebuses pass the limelight, there is still a dividing line between fact and fiction.

Evolution: fact (or, theory in the scientific sense)

Intelligent Design: fiction

The end.

@ all the people suggesting a smallish computer with a couple of drives:

- energy cost (your wallet)
- ease and simplicity of setup
- energy cost (your kid's environment)

THAT's why.

Is mr Laning now in jail? A couple of years ago, there was a ruling about a guy who "hacked" into someones website by changing url parameters. This was considered cracking and a criminal offense... Can't remember the details.

Also, the president is accountable for stuff. If the stuff goes wrong, the pres goes down.

See where this is going? Or at least, should logically go?

There will certainly be other people who should be held accountable as well. This does not mean that the first man, the prime leader, commander and etc. is somehow /not/ to blame.

Pun intended?

> So religious beliefs make people untrustworthy, even when it comes to server data?

I never said that, did I?

I'm just pointing out that in my opinion, a lot of what is on Conservapedia is scientifically (and sometimes ethically or even morally, depends on your POV) wrong.

Also, I was trying to poke gentle fun. Please, please let us not make this in an us-vs-them thing, it's not worth it. I think there's a lack of respect between religious and non-religious people (yes, both sides.)

I can only explain why I think sites like Conservapedia or wrong. Religious people believe stuff that I don't. Nothing wrong with that. They live their lives according to certain rules, which is on the whole very noble.
Once they start selling their faith as fact, even in the face of undeniable scientific evidence, this is kind of weird and icky.
When the lives of other people, non-religious or of another religion, are being influenced based on beliefs, gut feelings, and faith, a faith that is not shared, that's where it starts going wrong.
Then again, in a democracy, the leading party will not always be the party you chose, so that's how it works.
My point is that Conservapedia is selling their faith for a political agenda, stating their belief as fact, even when it's not. It could be a really good religious website, now it's just a crackpot political pusher, denouncing everything that is not just and right in their eyes.

I've never really understood why religion and science don't match. The bible has a bunch of lessons for us to learn, even if science proves that natural selection exists, right? Why the need to disprove that? Why the need for elaborate websites detailing how it's all wrong? Are people really that nutty?

These are some random thoughts, I hope you can better understand what irks me about Conservapedia and the like. I believe that most people aren't really that radical in their beliefs, and I suppose that this particular website could be seen as proof for the Great Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Either way, the original BB post is kind of stupid in that regard. We really all know that the top 10 pages aren't all homosexuality-related, and it wouldn't have been my choice of post. Then again, this is not my blog.

> anything you heard from a Conservapedia editor would be untrustworthy. Which leads me to wonder why.

Obviously, you haven't actually _read_ anything on Conservapedia. Which is a good thing.

Wait, what, sea farts?

*furni

(sorry, couldn't resist)

> 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Would I buy the lexicon if I hadn't already read all the books? I don't think so, but I might.
-> no lost sales

Would I buy any missing books if I received this lexicon as a gift? One could easily assume so.
-> no lost sales, possible rise in sales

Would I stop buying the original books once I read the lexicon, provided I did not already own/had not already read all of them? Well, I don't think so.
->no lost sales

Either way, more exposure = more sales = more moneys = more good. Even bad news is good news, etc. This is good news, so what is her problem? Ah, she's writing her own authorised lexicon? How very interesting.
-> lost sales of OWN lexicon, but that's not what this lexicon covers. It uses portions of the original book, not of JKR's lexicon. So, provided there is significant own input from the lexicon's author(s), this is fair use.

I do think we can all agree that greed doesn't become her.

I sort of assumed the die pictured with "Windows" face up would be the same on all sides... The reboot one is probably more politically correct though.

Yeah, it's working for me now as well! Thanks!